5 Things That Too Shall Pass
Patheos (blog)
The climatologists say this might be the new normal. Dayton has already been reclassified one agricultural zone warmer this year. I make no claims about the causes of climate change—it's way too hot to argue—but it's undeniable we're dealing with it ...

Air Temperature « Liberty Street
By Chief
There is no human or animal activity that will not be affected by this new “normal” in the temperature. The vast majority of farms in the middle west (Ohio through Iowa) where the bulk of the corn and hogs are raised in the US, do not currently ...
Liberty Street

Dealing with Islamic groups new normal
Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON -- The victories of Islamic parties in Egypt and elsewhere have forced the U.S. to embark on an untested strategy to engage with groups that have historically been hostile to American interests, analysts said.

Home builders are hoping to find the 'new normal'
The Courier-Journal
Pat Durham used to build four or five custom homes a year, selling them for $800000 to $1million each. Then the real estate market crashed, and Durham didn't build a house for three years. 'The last few years have been kind of brutal in our industry,' Du.

During chemo years, boy had 'dream of being healthy'
Omaha World-Herald
The new normal for the Thompsons involves not sweating the little stuff. “If you think you've got problems,'' Pat Thompson said, “go to the ninth floor at Sloan-Kettering,'' where Joey and children from around the world go through weeks of excruciating ...

Grieving gives way to gardening and sharing harvests
Daily Press
"After I reached my new normal, I had Jesus at the center of my life. God added back into my life the things that brought me joy such as gardening but in the proper priority." Today, his 2500-square-foot backyard garden is a place where warm- and cold ...

Llamas and alpacas brave heat at Floyd County 4-H Fair
The Courier-Journal
Home builders are hoping to find the 'new normal'. Pat Durham used to build four or five custom homes a year, selling them for $800000 to $1million...- 10:31 pm. Michelle Singletary | Troubling trends in reverse mortgages. When my grandmother retired ...

Home owners facing loan repayment disaster
The Age
It warned that a lower pace of appreciation was the ''new normal''. ''There is a risk that some purchase decisions that were made on the expectation of higher long-run average growth rates may have to be reassessed,'' it said. Property analyst Mark ...

Court Sends GOP Spinners Into Overdrive
Southern Pines Pilot
The reaction was pretty much what you'd expect from the unhinged right, for whom Obama Derangement Syndrome is the new normal. There were calls for the impeachment of Chief Justice John Roberts. Someone briefly changed Roberts' Wikipedia page to ...

Pace of migration to the Northwest could heat up
OregonLive.com
Friday, Washington, D.C., endured its record ninth straight 95-degree day -- Saturday forecast: 106 -- and The Washington Post asked whether this is the new normal. Soothing white cools the Drought Monitor's map in just a few places: parts of the ...

NeNe Leakes Relying on Religion to Get Through Tough Times?
Gather Celebs News Channel
NeNe has plenty of stuff to deal with these days, with filming a reality show and flying to Hollywood every other week to do Glee or The New Normal. So, the last thing she needs is a son who is constantly getting himself in trouble with the law. This ...

Massive Looting of Archaeological Sites in the "New Egypt"
By Jan
Thus, the new normal in Egypt is rampant destruction and looting of precious archaeological sites. I'm sure we're only hearing about a fraction of what is actually going on, because for reasons of their own, the new "leaders" in Egypt are doing ...
Chess, Goddess and Everything

Private construction — robust or bust? | Per Se
By Benjamin E Diokno
As the rest of the economy adjusted to the slower, new normal growth, private construction became the new source of growth. Its expansion came from two sources; first the continued expansion of the business process outsourcing (BPO) ...
Per SePer Se | Per Se

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? (J.D. Rhoades' Blog): Romney ...
By JD Rhoades
The reaction was pretty much what you'd expect from the unhinged right, for whom Obama Derangement Syndrome is the new normal. There were calls for the impeachment of Chief Justice John Roberts. Someone briefly changed Roberts' ...
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? (J.D....

The Slack Wire: Interest Rates and (In)elastic Expectations
By JW Mason
So if long rates are finally falling now, it's only because an environment of low rates is being established as new normal. There's a great deal of resistance to this, since if interest rates do return to their old normal levels, the capital losses to ...
The Slack Wire

It's Politics: New normal is unacceptable
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
In 1986, late R&B singer Gwen Guthrie scored a Billboard hit with her ode to women s independence: "Ain t Nothin Going On But The Rent."

Storm Warning: Why Higher Ed Needs New Leadership Now
Huffington Post (blog)
A new generation of college presidents must step up to confront the turbulent landscape that will be the "new normal." Former President John F. Kennedy once said, "It is time for a new generation of leadership... For there is a new world to be won ...

How Fire Could Change the Face of the West
Wired News
The vast fires of this summer and last represent a new normal for the western United States. They may signal a radical landscape transformation, one that will make the 21st century West an ecological frontier. Unlike fires that have occurred regularly ...Wired News

There's Battle Lines Being Drawn
Power Line (blog)
The Obama administration tells voters that 8% unemployment and 15% underemployment is the new normal. Monthly job reports that indicate regression–80000 jobs are not enough to keep up with new entrants into the job market, so a report like today's ...

Frank Ocean Comes Out: An Open Letter To The R&B Star
Huffington Post
You actually responded to your legion of fans, and the world, by announcing your love and declaration affirming yourself in a new era Hip Hop world that is drifting toward a new normal that is no longer filled with the hetero masculine machismo that ...

Republicans Hope Lumbering Economy Dooms Obama Bid For Second Term
Huffington Post
They might include Obama's personal likability, gaps in Romney's strategy or Americans' grudging acceptance of a new normal in which millions of jobs are gone for good and no single person is responsible. If high unemployment "was a killer, he'd ...

Recessions and the presidents who inherited them
Fox News
The results to date confirm that the high-tax, high-spend policy approach is failing to generate a real recovery, and worse, has created a new normal that is 12 million jobs below the old normal. -. All three men could fairly claim they “inherited” a ...

Power outages put focus on storm response, lessons for future
Baltimore Sun
"The new normal may be you're going to have a storm once, twice, three times a year where a significant amount of people are losing power for two or three days," said Barry Scanlon, president of Witt Associates, a disaster management consulting firm in ...

Now is time to move water needs off back burner
Bloomington Pantagraph
Today, the plan is pretty much dead in the water, a victim of complacency and some small-town intransigence. So what happens if this hot, dry start to summer that followed an abnormally warm spring that followed a mild and dry winter is the “new normal?

Refugees able to live the American dream
Worthington Daily Globe
Living life on the move seemed normal to her. Then, when she was 19, she found a new normal with tens of thousands of fellow Karen-speaking Burmese people — chased out of their country by soldiers and harbored by refugee camps on the Thailand side ...

A New Normal for Iran's Oil Industry - Uskowi on Iran
By Nader Uskowi
A New Normal for Iran's Oil Industry. Significant Cutbacks in Exports and Production Expected A week after the EU embargo of Iranian oil and its ban on insurance coverage of tankers carrying Iran crude, a picture of significant cutbacks in ...
Uskowi on Iran - اسکویی...

USA News Biz: Welcome to the New Normal on US Jobs -Analyst
By Dollar Rate
Welcome to the New Normal on US Jobs -Analyst. "This is what 2% real growth looks like from the perspective of hiring," says Steve Blitz of ITG Investment Research after seeing report of only 80000 new jobs added in June. He says the low ...
USA News Biz

Jonathan Dodd: Normally Weird, or Weirdly Normal? : Isle of Wight ...
By Jonathan Dodd
Weird is the new normal. I'm not weird in any of the same ways as Grayson is, but my normal state is to feel weird rather than normal, Rousseau: which is not weird in my mind at all, but I do wish we had been able to change society so that ...
Ventnor Blog » Isle of Wight...

Yates Walker | A tea party battle cry | Conservatives4Palin
By Doug Brady
By 2016, the word “repeal” will be considered politically toxic. Some insufferable moderate Republican of the future will label our current insufferable moderates as “right-wing.” Somehow the new normal is always to the left of where we were ...
Conservatives4Palin

Why You Need to Create Positive Habits in Your Addiction Recovery ...
By Patrick
In order to stay clean and sober in the long run you are going to need to establish a new pattern, a new normal, a new “default mode” for how you deal with every day reality again. Establishing this new baseline is not going to happen ...
Spiritual River | How to Stop...

Ya Think? | hogewash
By wjjhoge
One choice is guy leading a bunch of Techno-Progressives who know that they are the best and the brightest and who sincerely believe that if we will just get used to the new normal of 8+ % unemployment and slow growth they can properly ...
hogewash

'Smash': Krysta Rodriguez, Leslie Odom Jr. Added As Series Regulars
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The New Normal. Ellen Barkin as Jane, Andrew Rannells as Bryan, Georgia King as Goldie, Bebe Wood as Shania, Justin Bartha as David ... The New Normal. Andrew Rannells as Bryan, Ellen Barkin as Jane, Nene Leakes as Rocky ...
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Open Thread | Crooks and Liars
By Bluegal aka Fran
If this were the 'new normal' it would be bad enough. This isn't the new normal at all though. It is a harbinger of much worse to come. Not only that, but what we managed to do in a few short decades will now take hundreds and hundreds of ...
Crooks and Liars

BABBLING ABOUT BOOKS, AND MORE!: 18 Weeks Going Strong ...
By KB/KT Grant
As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues. And there you have the best selling books of the week. Has anyone read the books I mentioned? Any thoughts on these best selling, chart topping books? Katiebabs ...
BABBLING ABOUT BOOKS, AND MORE!

Has capitalism done as much for gays as Pride? | J. P. E. Harper ...
By Quiltingpoint
Being gay is a new 'normal' not only in the sense that one of its most pressing contemporary calls is for a new form of conservative marriage, but in the sense that, as shoppers, gay people have found a way to become what Capital wants them ...
J. P. E. Harper-Scott, musicologist